We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about 20
projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't been
using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
standard project manager in VFP.
For example, a form in VSS is a binary file. It has had 16 changes to in
over the past few years. We would like to have these historical changes
stored in git allowing us to reference this history without the need to go
back to VSS. The catch is, we only want to store the text equivalent of the
form in git.
Is there someone out there that has done this in the past?
Thank you,
Tracy
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Hi Tracy:
I've done that in 2014 to migrate the last 10 labeled versions from our VSS
projects to PlasticSCM repositories.
The simplest way I'd find to do it is to checkout each version, copy to the
new repository and checkin into PlasticSCM.
In our case we migrated tx2 files and binaries, but you can do it with just
tx2 files.
Special care must by take with moved or renamed files.
I did the migration of those 10 latest versions (2700 files between tx2 and
binaries) in an hour or so.
Because the tx2 are the same, there is no need for regeneration.
Hope this helps,
Best Regards!
El jue., 3 ene. 2019 17:29, Tracy Pearson <tracy@powerchurch.com> escribió:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
>
> For example, a form in VSS is a binary file. It has had 16 changes to in
> over the past few years. We would like to have these historical changes
> stored in git allowing us to reference this history without the need to go
> back to VSS. The catch is, we only want to store the text equivalent of the
> form in git.
>
> Is there someone out there that has done this in the past?
>
> Thank you,
> Tracy
>
>
>
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Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Posted: 2019-01-04 14:20:47 Link
On 2019-01-03 11:29, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about
> 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't
> been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
Hi Tracy...Happy New Year!
Did you mean to say that you ARE or ARE NOT using FoxBin2PRG? I'd think
you would have to use it to achieve the non-binary source code control
process.
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Tracy,
My understanding is that bin2prg (or something like it) was created
expressly to support what you want to do. The idea was that the dbf (.scx,
etc.) would be used to create a comparable prg file and then both would be
checked in. The prg was used for change tracking only. It worked great
with VSS - not sure how well it will work with Git using the VFP project
manager, but you should be able to create a script that will do effectively
the same thing.
Fletcher
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On 2019-01-03 11:29, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about
> 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't
> been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
Hi Tracy...Happy New Year!
Did you mean to say that you ARE or ARE NOT using FoxBin2PRG? I'd think
you would have to use it to achieve the non-binary source code control
process.
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Mike,
In the VSS repository we are not currently using FoxBin2PRG.
We want to use it in the git repository, keeping the binaries out of it.
Doug Hennig's
Thank you,
Tracy
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On 2019-01-03 11:29, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about
> 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't
> been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
Hi Tracy...Happy New Year!
Did you mean to say that you ARE or ARE NOT using FoxBin2PRG? I'd think
you would have to use it to achieve the non-binary source code control
process.
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Fletcher,
We used the default SCCTEXT.PRG is what creates the VCA and SCA files stored
in VSS next to the binary files. However, attempting to DIFF that did not
always work out well. VFP would move some records around when editing a
method. It would look like a big chunk of the form or class library had been
removed from higher up, and then added back in down below. Which is actually
the case, since that code is stored in a memo field. Change a memo field.
The old value is still in the FPT until it's packed out. The new value is
added to the end.
I understand the FoxBin2PRG fixes that problem. It also enables just the
text version to be stored in the source control because it can be turned
back in to a binary file.
Thank you,
Tracy
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 3:38 PM
To: profoxtech@leafe.com
Subject: RE: VSS to git conversion
Tracy,
My understanding is that bin2prg (or something like it) was created
expressly to support what you want to do. The idea was that the dbf (.scx,
etc.) would be used to create a comparable prg file and then both would be
checked in. The prg was used for change tracking only. It worked great
with VSS - not sure how well it will work with Git using the VFP project
manager, but you should be able to create a script that will do effectively
the same thing.
Fletcher
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On 2019-01-03 11:29, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about
> 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't
> been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
Hi Tracy...Happy New Year!
Did you mean to say that you ARE or ARE NOT using FoxBin2PRG? I'd think
you would have to use it to achieve the non-binary source code control
process.
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Before FB2P was released I would have recommended SCCTEXTX as it did address all the shortcomings of the VFP supplied SCCTEXT tool. But FB2P works brilliantly, has tools to add it to Explorer's Send To menu, and seamlessly handles two way conversions of VFP binaries. Highly recommended as John Dvorak used to say in PCMag...
I've also started playing with PEx and Git for the same reasons as you; getting out of VSS. I can't speak to the preservation of SCC history in terms of a migration but the general integration of PEx with Git works in a manner very similar to the native Project Explorer SCC integration. Getting that initial dump into Git and in general getting comfortable with Git is my biggest hurdle so far. But I'm determined to make the migration in 2019.
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Fletcher,
We used the default SCCTEXT.PRG is what creates the VCA and SCA files stored in VSS next to the binary files. However, attempting to DIFF that did not always work out well. VFP would move some records around when editing a method. It would look like a big chunk of the form or class library had been removed from higher up, and then added back in down below. Which is actually the case, since that code is stored in a memo field. Change a memo field.
The old value is still in the FPT until it's packed out. The new value is added to the end.
I understand the FoxBin2PRG fixes that problem. It also enables just the text version to be stored in the source control because it can be turned back in to a binary file.
Thank you,
Tracy
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I did find something that converts straight from VSS to git. And it has
shown itself to be quick. Though the way I used VSS has some deeply nested
projects. This tool is putting everything that deep, leaving a lot of blank
folders to move through.
https://github.com/trevorr/vss2git
Though I haven't worked out how to catch and put in the FoxBin2PRG
conversion of the binary files yet.
Have a look. I know it will make my life somewhat easier. It keeps all the
history.
Tracy
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Before FB2P was released I would have recommended SCCTEXTX as it did address
all the shortcomings of the VFP supplied SCCTEXT tool. But FB2P works
brilliantly, has tools to add it to Explorer's Send To menu, and seamlessly
handles two way conversions of VFP binaries. Highly recommended as John
Dvorak used to say in PCMag...
I've also started playing with PEx and Git for the same reasons as you;
getting out of VSS. I can't speak to the preservation of SCC history in
terms of a migration but the general integration of PEx with Git works in a
manner very similar to the native Project Explorer SCC integration. Getting
that initial dump into Git and in general getting comfortable with Git is my
biggest hurdle so far. But I'm determined to make the migration in 2019.
--
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Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 4:25 PM
To: profoxtech@leafe.com
Subject: RE: VSS to git conversion
Fletcher,
We used the default SCCTEXT.PRG is what creates the VCA and SCA files stored
in VSS next to the binary files. However, attempting to DIFF that did not
always work out well. VFP would move some records around when editing a
method. It would look like a big chunk of the form or class library had been
removed from higher up, and then added back in down below. Which is actually
the case, since that code is stored in a memo field. Change a memo field.
The old value is still in the FPT until it's packed out. The new value is
added to the end.
I understand the FoxBin2PRG fixes that problem. It also enables just the
text version to be stored in the source control because it can be turned
back in to a binary file.
Thank you,
Tracy
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Thanks, Tracy. That looks quite promising.
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I did find something that converts straight from VSS to git. And it has shown itself to be quick. Though the way I used VSS has some deeply nested projects. This tool is putting everything that deep, leaving a lot of blank folders to move through.
https://github.com/trevorr/vss2git
Though I haven't worked out how to catch and put in the FoxBin2PRG conversion of the binary files yet.
Have a look. I know it will make my life somewhat easier. It keeps all the history.
Tracy
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 5:05 PM
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Subject: RE: VSS to git conversion
Before FB2P was released I would have recommended SCCTEXTX as it did address all the shortcomings of the VFP supplied SCCTEXT tool. But FB2P works brilliantly, has tools to add it to Explorer's Send To menu, and seamlessly handles two way conversions of VFP binaries. Highly recommended as John Dvorak used to say in PCMag...
I've also started playing with PEx and Git for the same reasons as you; getting out of VSS. I can't speak to the preservation of SCC history in terms of a migration but the general integration of PEx with Git works in a manner very similar to the native Project Explorer SCC integration. Getting that initial dump into Git and in general getting comfortable with Git is my biggest hurdle so far. But I'm determined to make the migration in 2019.
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Tracy,
Now I remember. I actually had a program that I could run that would
re-sort the scx (or the generated code) and then re-format the code so that
the code was always in more or less the same sequence and format. I am
guessing that whoever wrote FoxBin2PRG had some of the same frustrations and
was nice enough to build something more robust and then publish it.
When VSS support was first added, the theory was that any source control
could be used. I often wondered if the hooks were still there so that Git
could be used as (more or less) seamlessly as VSS.
I hope things work out,
Fletcher
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Fletcher,
We used the default SCCTEXT.PRG is what creates the VCA and SCA files stored
in VSS next to the binary files. However, attempting to DIFF that did not
always work out well. VFP would move some records around when editing a
method. It would look like a big chunk of the form or class library had been
removed from higher up, and then added back in down below. Which is actually
the case, since that code is stored in a memo field. Change a memo field.
The old value is still in the FPT until it's packed out. The new value is
added to the end.
I understand the FoxBin2PRG fixes that problem. It also enables just the
text version to be stored in the source control because it can be turned
back in to a binary file.
Thank you,
Tracy
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 3:38 PM
To: profoxtech@leafe.com
Subject: RE: VSS to git conversion
Tracy,
My understanding is that bin2prg (or something like it) was created
expressly to support what you want to do. The idea was that the dbf (.scx,
etc.) would be used to create a comparable prg file and then both would be
checked in. The prg was used for change tracking only. It worked great
with VSS - not sure how well it will work with Git using the VFP project
manager, but you should be able to create a script that will do effectively
the same thing.
Fletcher
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FletcherSJohnson@Yahoo.com
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On 2019-01-03 11:29, Tracy Pearson wrote:
> We are looking at changing things over from VSS to git. There are about
> 20
> projects that we want to transfer the history of the files in to git.
> However, we do not want to transfer the binary files over. We haven't
> been
> using the FoxBin2PRG since we have been just working directly in the
> standard project manager in VFP.
Hi Tracy...Happy New Year!
Did you mean to say that you ARE or ARE NOT using FoxBin2PRG? I'd think
you would have to use it to achieve the non-binary source code control
process.
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